BlockBluff City, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Spottsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42420. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spottsville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1905 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Spottsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Spottsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1916Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bluff City between 1999 and 2017, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DUMP |
| 28 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 July 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BROKEN POL |
| 6 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.1 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | REED FIRE |
| 10 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HATCHETT MILL ROAD |
| 20 February 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DAYTONA FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hebbardsville | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Reed | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Spottsville | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Beals | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Zion | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Carlinburg | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Baskett | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Euterpe | 6.9 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 487567. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.